Ann Pizzorusso says she has tracked down the background landscape of the world’s most famous painting
The landscape behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has sparked endless debate, with some art historians suggesting the view was imaginary and idealised, and others claiming various links to specific Italian locations.
The similarities are undeniable, she said. “I’m so excited about this. I really feel it’s a home run.”, a small town in northern Italy, and a 2023 finding that Leonardo had painted a bridge in the province ofand many looked very similar. It is impossible to identify an exact location from a bridge alone. They all talk about the bridge and nobody talks about the geology.
Pizzorusso’s analysis of the vegetation and geology in the landscape around the central figures revived the debate. She concluded: “The botany in the Louvre version is perfect, showing plants that would have thrived in a moist, dark grotto. But the plants in the London version are inaccurate. Some don’t exist in nature.
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